Microsoft Project Scarlett console will be compatible with Xbox One accessories and games

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Existing Xbox One owners wouldn’t have to worry about upgrading to the Project Scarlett console. Once this next-generation console launches, existing games, controllers, and accessories of the Xbox One will work with it. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said during Microsoft’s Inside Xbox E3 event, “We thought out our design for Project Scarlett, we definitely wanted to make sure that we were compatible across all the generations. Not just with the games, but the accessories. It’s really us respecting the purchases gamers have made on our platform.” And yes, it’ll also work with the upcoming Xbox Elite 2 controller. The Project Scarlett console is expected to arrive in the fall of 2020 alongside the new Halo Infinite game.

Source: The Verge

There will be an optical drive on the Project Scarlett Xbox console

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If the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition had you worried that Microsoft was dropping the optical drive for its next-generation console, then a couple of execs from the company are here to assure you that it won’t be going away for this version. Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty confirmed to different outlets that you will be able to use your disc collection with the Project Scarlett Xbox console. Spencer told GameIndustry.biz, “But we know that people still have discs. So even when we put out things like the Xbox One S All-Digital edition, we are very clear with the name because I am not trying to confuse anybody, that if you are somebody that has a library of discs, or that’s the way you want to acquire the content, then you should buy the Xbox One S, not the Xbox One S All-Digital... which is why we put it in the name. I want to give people choice, and right now physical is a choice that millions of people love.”

Booty echoed his sentiments in an interview with Eurogamer, “Scarlett will have an optical disc drive. I still have films at home on physical media—not many, but a few of my favorites. We know people have an attachment to buying games on disc, to building a collection.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t see a disc-less version of this console, though. Project Scarlett is the next-generation console from Microsoft. It’ll run on a custom-designed processor based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA architecture, GDDR6 RAM, and will support 8K gaming, ray-tracing, variable refresh rate support, and framerates of up to 120 frames per second.

Source: The Verge

Microsoft will release ‘Halo Infinite’ alongside the new Xbox

One game that’s sure to take advantage of Microsoft’s upcoming next-generation console will be Halo Infinite. This game was first teased by the company back at E3 2018 and it appears to be an open-world version of Halo. And now we know it’ll launch alongside the Project Scarlett console. And it’ll be available on the Xbox One and PC then as well. The new teaser trailer above shows Master Chief being brought back to life. According to 343 Industries, Halo Infinite is considered a “spiritual reboot” of Halo, complete with new characters. But at its heart, it’s still Master Chief’s story. At the same time, though, the story is a good starting point for new players. It builds on the story from Halo 5, and it contains adventures that led up to this moment.

Halo Infinite is made with the new Slipspace Engine, which 343 Industries built specifically for this game and future Halo games. This teaser is a first look at what we can expect.

Microsoft teases next-gen Xbox ‘Project Scarlett’ console

Microsoft is finally talking about its next-generation Xbox and what we can expect from it. For now, we know this next-gen console as Project Scarlett. It promises to be a console that’s four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. It’ll use a custom-designed processor based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA architecture. And with Microsoft opting to use fast GDDR6 RAM, it claims this will “user in resolution and framerates we’ve never seen before.”

The Project Scarlett console will support 8K gaming, ray-tracing, variable refresh rate support, and framerates of up to 120 frames per second. The company will use the SSD as virtual RAM, which should boost performance by 40 times over what the current generation offers. This means loading times should be a thing of the past. All the specs are also meant to provide a more immersive experience than before. Microsoft didn’t talk about what the console will look like, but we know it will launch alongside Halo Infinite in the latter part of 2020.